Andrew Quilty has asked: The attack in Boston killed 3 innocent people. Since the start of the Iraq war in 2003, upwards of 100,000 civilians have been killed. There is much support in the US that the death penalty be given to the remaining Tsarnaev brother yet there is no recourse for the untold number of civilian deaths at the hands of the US and its allies across the Middle East in recent years. Why is this so and are attacks on the US such as that in Boston not simply inevitable considering US foreign policy since 2001?

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